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BULLETIN 984, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Oswego State Normal School, Oswego, 

 N. Y. 



Paris University, Paris, France. 



Pennsylvania University, Philadelphia, 

 Pa. 



Potsdam State Normal School, Potsdam, 

 N. Y. 



Pratt Institute, New York City, N. Y. 



Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, 

 N. Y. 



Rochester Business College, Rochester, 

 N. Y. 



Rochester University, Rochester, N. Y. 



Simmons College, Boston, Mass. 



Smith College, Northampton, Mass. 



St. Lawrence University, Canton, N. Y. 



Strassburg University, Strassburg, Ger- 

 many. 



Syracuse University, Syracuse, N. Y. 



Theological Seminary of the Reformed 

 Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Troy Conference Academy, Poultney, Vt. 



Union College, Schenectady, N. Y. 



Washington State University, Seattle, 

 Wash. 



Watertown City Hospital Training School, 

 Watertown, N. Y. 



Watertown Commercial College, Water- 

 town, N. Y. 



Wesleyan Methodist Seminary, Hough- 

 ton, N. Y. 



Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. 



Wisconsin University, Madison, Wis. 



Wiskis School of Music, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, Pa. 



Farm homes: 



Village homes: 



No. 34. Cortland Normal. 



A (Belleville). 



No. 31. Smith College. 



B (Belleville). 



No. 48. Albany Normal. 



C (Belleville). 



No. 180. Cornell University. 



D (Belleville). 



No. 281. Cornell University. 



E (Belleville). 



No. 282. Buffalo Normal. 



F (Belleville). 



No. 374. Syracuse University. 



G (Ellisburg). 



No. 679. Syracuse University. 



H (Belleville). 



No. 81. Cortland Normal. 





THE LECTURE 



ASSOCIATION. 



The following is a list of farm and village homes in the Belleville 

 community sending out students to college in one year (see fig. 18) : 



Colgate University. - 

 Syracuse Law School. 

 Syracuse University. 

 Syracuse University. 

 Syracuse University. 

 Oswego Normal. 

 Syracuse University. 

 Colgate University. 



Through their lecture association, which has been maintained over 

 a period of 50 years, the people of Belleville have been able to bring 

 to their own home platforin many of the leading orators, statesmen, 

 humorists, philanthropists, clergymen, and concert singers. While 

 their young people have had instruction and encouragement in school 

 along the line of music, oratory, and art, there have been from time 

 to time community classes of adults meeting for special study and 

 training in literature, singing, painting, and orchestral music. 



VACATIONS. 



Supplementing this secondhand intercourse with the world at 

 large are the vacations taken by the farm people of the Belleville 

 community. The fact that a man is a farmer does not, in this com- 

 munity, bar him from taking pleasure in fishing and hunting expedi- 

 tions, camp outings, or touring trips, nor does it keep him from 

 joining the business men's club in the nearest city or from going 



